CIOs and IT leaders are grappling with petabytes of data scattered across hybrid cloud environments. They’re using several disparate technologies to move, store and backup this unstructured data. Yet, something’s missing. Enterprise IT teams often lack the control, insights and flexibility to make unstructured data a strategic asset – and not a liability.
The IT landscape is shifting with the onset of AI. It is no longer adequate to store your file data on a resilient NAS in a “set and forget” fashion. Data must be optimized across its lifecycle for cost, classified for contextual search, moved quickly and without risk and disruption when required and governed appropriately for AI data workflows.
Consider the following when making plans for your data environment in the coming year:
- Are your storage and backup costs rising every year, with no end in sight? Read more.
- Are you concerned about efficiently migrating data to new storage without incurring delays, extra costs and risk? Have you been burned in the past? Read more.
- Do you have adequate ransomware protection for all your data – even older file data which is rarely accessed? Do you fully understand your risks? Read more.
- Is your data classified and ready for AI, with data governance capabilities? Read more.
Why your data deserves a better experience
Legacy storage-based approaches for data management are siloed and reactive. They offer little visibility into your data and often involve costly rehydration processes, slow and troublesome migrations, and rigid vendor lock-in. Even worse, storage vendor data management tools fail to support the growing need for secure, governed AI data pipelines.
The Komprise Data Experience (KDX) changes that. It provides an analytics-first, economic and non-intrusive solution for managing unstructured data across all your storage, backup, and AI environments, without lock-in.
Here are 5 benefits of KDX, detailed in this paper.
1. Stop making storage decisions in the dark.
Start with global visibility across silos. If you cannot see and understand your data across storage – whether that is on premises, at the edge or in the cloud – then you cannot achieve a holistic view to understand where data should ideally live. Komprise solves this with a Global Metadatabase (KMDB)—a high-performance, global file index that analyzes every file and object across your data estate. You can search, tag, and classify data in real time, and set automated policies to tier, move, or confine it—whether it’s on-prem or in the cloud.
You can grant departmental users access to search and tagging features, for an even better strategy for data classification and lifecycle management. The system’s scale-out architecture ensures high performance, even at the petabyte level, with distributed workers that handle failures and network interruptions.
2. Stop overspending on data migrations.
Start 25X faster migrations with lower costs. Unstructured data migrations are notoriously expensive and time-consuming with large data sets of diverse file types and sizes. Komprise delivers a rapid, scalable experience with Elastic Data Migration, offering 25x faster WAN performance and advanced planning tools like the Assessment of Customer Environment (ACE) to proactively identify and resolve migration bottlenecks. Our customers are using Komprise to right-place data through cold data tiering. This saves money and frees up capacity on your high-performance tier by ensuring that you only migrate active data to new storage.
Tiering cold data (most of the data in enterprises today) to immutable object storage in the cloud, for instance, often mitigates the need to create and store copies for backup and saves exponentially on per-terabyte data storage costs.
Watch the Komprise Migration best practice series.
3. Stop paying the rehydration penalty.
Start tiering data with no switching costs. If you’ve ever used a storage vendor’s tiering solution, you may have faced the dreaded rehydration penalty. When it’s time to switch platforms, you’re forced to pull all tiered data back onto the source, migrate that data to the new storage unit and then tier it again. If you don’t have enough capacity at the source, you’ll need to buy more before moving off the platform. That doesn’t make much sense. Komprise Transparent Move Technology™, was created to eliminate this problem.
With Komprise, you can migrate the data directly to the new storage without rehydration because Komprise tiers the entire file without transforming it into proprietary blocks or stripping out its metadata into a proprietary layer. You can switch vendors freely and maintain user and application access without any changes.
On average, customers save 70% on storage and backup costs with Komprise transparent tiering.
Read the paper.
4. Stop exposing file data to ransomware.
Start shrinking the ransomware attack surface. Inactive unstructured data can be your weakest link when it comes to a potential ransomware attack because of its sheer volume, the number of users who have access to it and the long latency before a breach is detected. Storage-tiering solutions do not shield this cold data from ransomware attacks as the tiered files are still managed by the storage file system.
Komprise addresses file data risk by moving cold data to immutable cloud storage, which prevents ransomware actors from accessing or modifying your data. You can set versioning on the immutable object storage to provide a pre-attack copy for restores. With this defense posture, organizations can afford to protect all their unstructured data from bad actors– not just the most critical data.
Watch the video with Komprise CEO Kumar Goswami.
5. Stop sharing sensitive data with AI.
Start with built-in AI data governance. As AI adoption accelerates, risks increase from inadvertent exposure of sensitive internal data like PII and IP to AI models and chatbots. Komprise gives control back to IT with Smart Data Workflows, which allow you to build automated data pipelines that search, tag, and move sensitive data to locations where it cannot be ingested by AI, while feeding the right data to AI pipelines.
Watch the short overview below on Smart Data Workflows. And watch the 5-minute demo on YouTube.
The Komprise Data Experience empowers IT teams to shift from reactive storage management to proactive unstructured data management through:
- Global visibility across all storage and cloud silos;
- Smarter, faster data migrations;
- Flexible data tiering without vendor lock-in;
- Stronger data protection against ransomware;
- AI-ready workflows with built-in data governance.
Got data? Get KDX.
Schedule a demo with our team today to learn more.
